Good Strategy/Bad Strategy ISBN:9780307886231 business strategy book by Richard Rumelt; followed by The Crux (more)

Richard Rumelt: The perils of bad strategy (Business Strategy) (more)

The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability. ISBN:1591393078 (more)

One Question to Rule Them All. What Would You Say You Do Here? (more)

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Refined-standard MarkDown. http://commonmark.org/ (more)

VaccinateCA was a community-run website that tracks the availability of COVID-19 vaccines in California.[1][2][3][4] It was created by a group of volunteers who call hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers daily to gather information about vaccine availability, eligibility, and appointment procedures.[5][6][7][8] The website then publishes this information and allows users to search for vaccination sites by region, county, or within a set radius of their ZIP code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VaccinateCA (more)

Dave Winer: Dev notes for Markdown in RSS. Suppose you've written blogging software that allows users to enter Markdown text (more)

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is a group that formed during the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, and describes itself as "a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy." The Alliance also comprises existing and new net zero finance initiatives like the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFANZ (more)

Global net-zero emissions describe the state where emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activities and removals of these gases are in balance over a given period. It is often called simply net zero.[1] In some cases, emissions refers to emissions of all greenhouse gases, and in others it refers only to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).[1] To reach net zero targets requires actions to reduce emissions. One example would be by shifting from fossil fuel energy to sustainable energy sources. Organizations often offset their residual emissions by buying carbon credits. People often use the terms net-zero emissions, carbon neutrality, and climate neutrality with the same meaning.[2][3][4][5]: 22–24  However, in some cases, these terms have different meanings from each other.[2] For example, some standards for carbon neutral certification allow a lot of carbon offsetting. But net zero standards require reducing emissions to more than 90% and then only offsetting the remaining 10% or less to fall in line with 1.5 °C targets.[6] In the last few years, net zero has become the main framework for climate action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net-zero_emissions see climate change

An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.[1] The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult.[2] Colossal Cave Adventure (source of the phrase maze of twisty little passages) is identified[3] as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include Zork, King's Quest, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Myst. Adventure games were initially developed in the 1970s and early 1980s as text-based interactive stories, using text parsers to translate the player's commands into actions. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text commands with graphics, but soon moving towards point-and-click interfaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game

Scott Alexander: Only About 40% Of The Ted Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science. U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a database identifying over 3,400 grants, totaling more than $2.05 billion in federal funding awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during the Biden-Harris administration. This funding was diverted toward questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda. (more)

Lawrence Krauss: Now Even Science Grants Must Bow to Equity and Inclusion (DEI). America’s largest research funder in physical sciences isn’t the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or the National Science Foundation. It’s the Energy Department’s Office of Science, which gives money to university programs throughout the country and oversees the 10 major national laboratories, from Livermore to Los Alamos. (more)

I'm pondering Threading Across Twitter And Digital Gardens.... (2025 update: need to swap in Mastodon for twitter.) (more)

Liam O'Connor: The beauty of the Forester idea is that it's a wiki, but not of articles. You create a graph of definitions, remarks, notes, thoughts, theorems, results or anything really, and then you can construct a narrative (or multiple!) by transcluding (transclusion) a subgraph of these. Hierarchy and content can be entirely separate, or partly merged. It's super flexible. One thing I've noticed in my ~10 years of lecturing courses is that I often re-use little bits of material from one course to another. If all my lecture notes are from Forester, this process is made effortless. It's almost addictive to make lecture notes in it.

Forester is a tool for creating densely interlinked networks (forests) of scientific writing in hypertext... Forester is a tool for authoring, exploring, and sharing scientific and mathematical hypertexts. It is your lab notebook, your journal, your blackboard, and the home of your lecture notes.... Many working scientists, students, and hobbyists have wished to create their own tag-based hypertext knowledge base, but the combination of tools historically required to make this happen are extremely daunting. Both the Stacks project and Kerodon use a cluster of software called Gerby, but bitrot has set in and it is no longer possible to build its dependencies on a modern environment without significant difficulty, raising questions of longevity. Moreover, Gerby’s deployment involves running a database on a server (in spite of the fact that almost the entire functionality is static HTML), an architecture that is incompatible with the constraints of the everyday working scientist or student who knows at most how to upload static files to their university-provided public storage. The recent experience of the nLab’s pandemic-era hiatus and near death experience has demonstrated with some urgency the precarity faced by any project relying heavily on volunteer system administrators. https://www.forester-notes.org/ (more)

A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagram Thinking Tool (more)

Charity Majors: Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals. I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if not actively compensating for evil behavior. (more)

Joel Spolsky: How Trello is different. Just a few months ago, we launched Trello, a super simple, web-based team coordination system. (more)

multi-level list-making app (more)